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New Year ’s Eve is the time when a woman wants to be kissed by the lover of her life, and the men want to be there to solidify their relationship with their woman. It is the time when everyone unites together and welcomes the New Year by dining together and eating Ice creams. But, how bad it would be for an ice cream company that has to face criminal investigation on being charged for contamination during the festive season? Similar case happened with Blue Bell Creameries which is facing criminal investigation by the U.S.

Brazil is currently facing a new problem: infants with smaller than expected head size. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported many babies are taking birth with microcephaly in Brazil and it’s a serious issue.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers claimed to have found the hormone that works through the brain’s reward system to weaken cravings for sweets and alcohol.

The hormone, Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 (FGF21), is induced in the body by tremendously cold temperatures, abrupt changes in diet as well as in carbohydrate consumption. During the study, health researchers found that mice with higher levels of FGF21 showed less preference for sweetened and alcohol-laced water.

An annual report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics has unveiled that the rate of twin births in America was at an all-time high in 2014 and the rate for triplets, quadruplets and more was the lowest in the last 20 years.

In 2014, nearly four million babies were born and out of them, more than 135,000 were twins, which means around one in every 29 babies was twin. Such was not the case in 1980 when only one in every 53 babies was a twin.

Narcotic painkillers and heroin led drug overdose deaths to reach record high in 2014, says a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 47,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses, a 14% jump from 2013, in 2014, unveiled the shocking report.

Over six out of 10 drug overdose deaths were due to narcotics, including prescription painkillers and heroin. Since 2000, nearly half a million people have died from drug overdoses. CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden has found the jump in number of deaths due to drug overdoses as startling.

According to the latest 2014 report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), deaths from drug overdoses have reached all time high. Officials found 14% increase in numbers of deaths from overdoses of prescription drugs and heroin from 2013 to 2014. Despite of efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, overdoses of prescription drugs and heroin continue to be the leading cause of unintentional deaths in America, with Michigan to be among 14 states to saw significant increase in death rate from 2013 to 2014.

Yet again a pessimistic outcome of drug overdose deaths in the US has been reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new CDC report has unveiled that drug overdose deaths in 2014 have set new records. Main reason behind skyrocketing deaths by drug overdose is narcotic painkillers and heroin.

Do you love eating Mediterranean diet made of olive oils and red wines? If yes, then you are on the right path as your taste is preventing you from various heart diseases and gut microbes. For the first time, researchers have discovered a compound in olive oils and red wines that can interfere with gut microbes in ways that could potentially help to prevent heart diseases in humans. During the study conducted on mice, researchers targeted the mice's gut microbes with a compound called DMB.

Camels are known as reservoirs for the infection. In the new study, European scientists have genetically engineered a smallpox virus, Modified Vaccinia Ankara –MVA, to display Mers virus spike protein on its surface. No treatments for Mers infection has been invented till now, but scientists have been trying to develop new vaccine that can prove effective in treating the infection. They are just a step closer to come up with a new vaccine that can prove effective in treating Mers infection. The Mers spike protein is thought to be a major target for the immune response.

It seems great to see huge decline in the abortion rate in the United States. As per the recent report by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US pregnancy rate has hit all-time low in 2010 with huge drop in abortion rates too. According to federal officials, the abortion rate has been dropped by 33% in past twenty years to a new lowest record.